The side effect of being uncivil to one another is probably fewer reasonable entrants to the next competition.
I've been a bit of a d__k recently myself (something I am working to rectify, BTW). Even still, I consider myself somewhat reasonable and I agree with your assessment.
45 pages in this thread so far and a good number of them are egomaniac drivel only marginally related to the bracket itself.
A sad addendum to what is usually a good event....